Cottonwood:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Populus balsimifera
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balsam poplar
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t'egheł
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t'egheł5
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244
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Nelson - The Koyukon origin story for balsam poplar tells about a woman who heard a tale that was so sad and terrible that she began to cry and slit her skin. She became the balsam poplar with its deeply cut bark.
Good for smoking meat and fish
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cottonwood bark
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Nelson - "...used to make fish net floaters and may have been peeled in slabs for smokehouse floors and walls. The bark is also burned as mosquito smudges."
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buds
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Nelson- "Pitchy buds are boiled with spruce needles (or with highbush cranberries and rose hips) to make medicine for healing sores."
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Populus balsimifera
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Dogwood:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Cornus stolonifera
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red-osier dogwood
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kk'ʉkk'eze
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kk'ʉy'
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372
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May not be derived from kk'ʉy'3 (willow) but rather from kk'ʉy1 (pelvis or spread object)
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berry of the red-osier (American dogwood)
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nek'enle'een geege'
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een1
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32
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Lit. 'woodman's berry'
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Not eaten
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Cornus stolonifera
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Forget-Me-Not:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Myosotis sp.
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senoghoolneghe yu
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neh2
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463
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Lit. 'do not forget me'
Coined word from English
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Myosotis sp.
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Hemlock:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Cicuta mackenzieanna
(Cicuta virosa)
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poison water hemlock
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k'enłnaaye
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no8
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481
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Lit. 'that causes death'
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heldedlee
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detl2
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136
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Lit. 'that which trembles'
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heldełee
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Cicuta virosa
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Marestail:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Hippuris vulgaris
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goose grass
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dets'en baabe'
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baabe
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79
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Lit. 'goose's food'
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Hippuris vulgaris
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ch'edot'aagge baabe'
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Hippuris vulgaris
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marestail
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tlaałtl'ughe
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tl'uh
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616
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May also apply to white-flowered variety of Epilobium angustifolium. Etymology not obtained
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Equisetum sp.
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aquatic horsetail
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Hippuris vulgaris
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Potentilla:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Potentilla sp.
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cinquefoil
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nokk ggaadle'
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nokk
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489
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Lit. 'Mineral lick root'
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Raspberry:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Rubus idaeus
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dets'en tl'aakk
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tl'aakk1
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589
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Lit. 'goose + Ω' (unclear term)
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Rubus idaeus
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ts'en3
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664
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Rubus idaeus
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neełdeggey
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dekk1
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129
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Rubus idaeus
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Rhubarb:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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| Polygonum alpinum
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wild rhubarb
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ggooł
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ggootl2
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217
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Nelson identifies this with Rumex arcticus
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Sullivan - "The leafstalks and stems, when young and tender, are eaten by the natives, either raw, or fried in grease, or boiled as greens."
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dried stem of wild rhubarb
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ggooł tsets
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ggootl2
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217
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tsets2
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636
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Polygonum alpinum
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Rose:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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| Rosa acicularis
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wild rose
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hus dekene', hus
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hus
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265
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kooyh
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kooyh
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305
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rose blossom
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kooyh kone'
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kooyh
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305
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rose hip
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kooyh loyde
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kooyh
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305
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Nelson - Eaten raw
Source of vitamin C
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hus loyde
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hus
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265
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seeds of the rose hip
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kooyh yee deneege'
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kooyh
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305
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| Dasiphora floribunda
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tundra rose, shrubby cinquefoil
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kk'uy' tloye'
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tloy
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584
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Rosa acicularis
Dasiphora floribunda
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Salmonberry:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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| Rubus spectabilis
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cloudberry
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kkotl
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kkotl2
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340
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Rubus spectabilis
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| By creation date